The program began in November and has allowed the hiring of 55 people to attend to needs derived from the pandemic
Benidorm will ask the Generalitat to extend ECOVID employment program by 6 months
This staff provides service in different municipal facilities and spaces
Benidorm City Council is going to request the Generalitat Valenciana to extend the ECOVID Employment Promotion program for six months, in such a way that the final duration of the program is one year. This is reflected in the motion of the Councilor for Employment, Mónica Gómez, which will be voted on in plenary session next Monday, April 26, and which includes that the regional government provides the City Councils with the corresponding subsidy to attend the expansion of this program.
A program, the councillor recalled, that "in the case of Benidorm has allowed the City Council to hire 55 unemployed people to meet needs arising from the pandemic, and who provide service in different municipal facilities and spaces."
Since the beginning of the program on November 20, “these personnel have developed actions of general and social interest related to the prevention and fight against the pandemic, among them, information work and verification of compliance with anti-Covid protection measures in campaigns of vaccination, information to the users of the beaches or distribution of masks among the population ”.
Gómez has stressed that "the situation that led to the launch of this employment promotion program by LABORA is still clear and hence we consider it convenient to continue to practically cover the entire year 2021". In addition, this type of program contributes to “reducing as far as possible the unemployment levels in Benidorm”, a municipality that “due to its status as a tourist has been particularly affected by the effects of the pandemic on labor matters, with an increase of the number of unemployed people ”.
The extension of this program for six more months "would mean keeping these 55 people until the end of November, all of them over 30 years old, and who were unemployed before the start of ECOVID." If the program is not extended, these personnel will terminate their services at the end of May.
For this ECOVID program, launched by LABORA in coordination with the Valencian Agency for Security and Emergency Response (AVSRE) and financed through the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), the City Council obtained a grant of 661,598.57 euros.